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219 is W E - Metropolitan Corps

888 is E - Handsworth & Smethwick Corps

376 Robinson
377 Tinslove
378 Evans - surviving QSA
418 Timins
887 Peck - surviving QSA
1111 Maberley
1521 Rogers - surviving SJAB SA
1674 Jackson
1676 Rainbow - surviving QSA & SJAB SA
1677 Murray - surviving Pair plus
1802 Williams
1805 Parfitt
1810 Fletcher
1811 Barnett
1918 Greenwood

All Handsworth & Smethwick Corps - total medals awarded not extant

Bablefish - many thanks for sorting out my double take of 888 W E Lawrence.

Your list of H&S men gives me regimental numbers for Evans & Williams and then started ringing some bells and I have now found folders I created 4 years ago regarding some of them e.g. 1805 Parfitt , and this is the newspaper clipping from the Smethwick Telephone of 11 October 1901 reporting another meeting at the Smethwick SJAB Centre I found in his folder:



This led me to my Truslove folder which includes the page from the SJAB Medal Roll listing 377 F W Truslove so I think Tinslove is an error/typo on your list. Frederick William Truslove was born in Rugby in 1873 but by the time of the 1881 Census the family had moved to the Yardley area of Birmingham where his father was a Police Constable. By 1891 his father had taken up the post of Storekeeper at Tangye's Cornwall Works in Smethwick (The Tangye bros came from Cornwall). The Truslove family actually had accommodation within the Cornwall Works. Frederick also appears on the SJAB/8th General Hospital, Bloemfontein Medal Roll which shows his QSA was adorned with the CC & OFS clasps and he returned to England on July 1900. He married the following year in Smethwick and he & Lucy and family can be found living in Smethwick on the 1911 & 1921 Census. Frederick died in Smethwick in January 1930. Living in Smethwick before he went to SA definitely makes him a Smethwickian in my book and his post war life is the icing on the cake. Also definitely worth a post on the Smethwick Heritage Facebook page as he once lived within the Cornwall Works - mind most of the comments will be "My Uncle Bob" or "My Auntie Nellie" worked at the Cornwall works!

Regards, David,

Thanks for the correction David. Amendment made. There are bound to be more mis-spellings and typos: a handrwitten medal roll. my handwritten copy, entry into a database, a spreadsheet and then a website has the potential for many slips of the pen or keyboard. Im pretty sure the Sevice Numbers match the Medal Roll so the bronze medals are probably catered for. Possibly a different story for QSAs